From Friday, Feb 27 – Sunday, March 1st, Pornhub, the largest porn site in the world, will host its first ever Porn Film Festival in Bushwick, NY. This marks a further step in the mainstreaming of pornography, even as pornography becomes ever more violent, cruel, dehumanizing, degrading, and humiliating towards women.

“Arrested cheerleader fucked” – celebrating the portrayal of a young teenager being extensively violated by the cop who arrested her (27+ million views)

“Stepmom and [daughter] fucks and sucks her boyfriend's cock” celebrating a racist portrayal of a daughter and step-mom in Muslim headscarves revealing themselves to be sex-crazed “sluts” who team up on a teenage boy (17+ million views)

This doesn't even mention Pornhub features under “hardcore,” “gangbang,” “double penetration,” etc!

There is nothing “edgy” or “rebellious” about pornography. It is not “society becoming more comfortable with sex.” It is society becoming ever more saturated in the sexualized degradation of women.

Every woman at every hour of every day—whether on the street, in her home, at her job, in school, or on a battlefield—is affected by, diminished by, and endangered by living in a world where millions upon millions of men get off on watching women reduced to objects to be tortured, humiliated and brutalized for their sexual arousal.

That this Festival includes LGBT and “feminist” porn does not make any of this “liberating.” No matter who promotes it, porn does nothing to challenge the basic divisions into slave and slavemaster, dominated and dominator, object and subject that mark our world – and which have everything to do with why LGBT people and women are oppressed in the first place! While we join actively in the fight to combat all forms of bigotry and discrimination against people based on their gender or sexual orientation, the idea that liberation for anyone can be found through eroticizing domination and degradation is a terrible illusion.

Join with StopPatriarchy.org on Saturday, February 28 to PROTEST Pornhub and its Porn Film Festival. Bring a sign, bring a friend, or show up on your own. Many people hate this constant degradation of women – and many more can be won to cast it off and stand up against it – but we have to go out in public and declare it! We have to stand up and challenge this culture, expose the harm it does, break others out of it, and bring forward a far better and much more liberating culture in the process.

Women are NOT bitches, hos, punching bags, sex objects or breeders.Women are FULL HUMAN BEINGS!

Who is stop patriarchy?

Stop Patriarchy is a group for everyone who wants to FIGHT to STOP the enslavement of women. Not politely lobby against it. Not grumble at the TV. Not simply post things on Twitter. And definitely not sit around waiting for those in power to “come to their senses.” It is also a movement for everyone who can be won to see the need for this – we are fighting aggressively to change minds and to grow and deepen and escalate until we succeed in changing everything. JOIN US!